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Howler (2025): On the eve of receiving a major award, a reclusive poet begins having visions related to a local disappearance. Tropic Pictures Facebook and Tropic Pictures Instagram. Rent or buy Howler on VOD.

Dead Man (1995): Read the Canonically Weird review! This is the Criterion collection‘s 4K UHD upgrade of Jim Jarmusch‘s weirdo Western masterpiece. Buy Dead Man.

“Krazee Kidz Video Party”: A selection of four 60s-era “Children’s Grindhouse” features—The Big Bad Wolf, Fun in Balloon Land, Polly Pockets, and The Princess and the Magic Frog—paired with the esteemed Soviet children’s fantasy The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1963).  Buy “Krazee Kidz Video Party” at Vinegar Syndrome.

“The Mike Diana Film Collection”: The notorious artist Mike Diana (whose child-abuse-themed comix were so extreme that he was prosecuted for obscenity) also made a few transgressive and blasphemous “backyard” movies with titles like Baked Baby Jesus (1990). We can’t imagine that these are much fun, but we also can’t doubt that they are weird (in a nauseating way). Buy “The Mike Diana Film Collection” (and may God have mercy on your souls).

The Movie Orgy (1968): Cinema’s first mixtape, made by Joe Dante (hand-assembling actual films) to create a cultural artifact. Video editing has made this kind of thing trivial, but at the time it was a groundbreaking no-budget innovation. Buy The Movie Orgy from Vinegar Syndrome.

OBEX (2025): Read Giles Edwards’ festival capsule. A 1980s computer nerd travels into a video game to retrieve his missing dog. Albert Birney‘s festival hit has a perfect 100% on Rotten Tomatoes at the time of this writing and will play select theaters starting this week, with digital access coming February 6.  OBEX official site and distributor site (where you can find theaters and play whack-a-bug).

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No guest scheduled on next week’s Pod 366 (but we plan more to come). In written content, Micheal Diamades introduces you to the 1981 Greek obscurity Barbecue Them, Shane Wilson tells some more Southland Tales, Giles Edwards goes deeper into the world of OBEX (see above), and Gregory J. Smalley again thinks about I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Onward and weirdward!

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Bugonia (2025): Read Gregory J. Smalley’s Apocrypha Candidate review. The Bugonia Blu-ray will drop two days before Christmas (showing you just how much big studios value new-releases on physical media these days). Pre-order Bugonia. Also available in 4K UHD or 4K Steelbook editions (both come with standard Blu-rays included).

Kill the Jockey (2024): Read Giles Edwards’ Apocrypha Candidate review. The surreal Argentinian film about a drug-addicted jockey with a truly life-changing concussion arrives on VOD; free on Amazon Prime, with physical media arriving later. Watch or rent Kill the Jockey.

Perfect Blue (1997): Read the Canonically Weird entry! Shout! Factory’s lavish 4K edition of Satoshi Kon‘s anime psychological horror (released two days before Christmas, sadly) includes a 4K UHD disc, standard Blu-ray, booklet, art cards, poster, almost two hours of never-before-seen lectures from Kon, and more. Pre-order Perfect Blue.

Reanimator (1985): Read Giles Edwards’ List Candidate review. We already discussed this Ignite Films release in great detail in Pod 366, Ep. 118; this is just a notification that the standard edition (4K UHD + Blu-ray) is now available on Amazon and other retailers. Buy Reanimator.

Taste of Cinema 100 Best Surrealist Movies list: See the complete list here. This list does not appear on Taste of Cinema’s regular website, it’s a social media exclusive.

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Pod 366 is off next week. In written content, however, Micheal Diamades gets into the holiday spirit with the depraved torture of Melancholie der Engel (2009), Giles Edwards gets stuck in Rabbit Trap (2025), and Shane Wilson takes the Polar Express into the uncanny valley. Io Saturnalia, and onward and weirdward!

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Angel’s Egg (1985): Read Simon Hyslop’s original List Candidate review! In a desolate city, an angelic young girl cherishes an egg. We have been waiting for this one to be re-issued since the day this site first came into existence; that day is finally here. Umbrella’s Blu-ray/4K includes a commentary track, two video appreciations, and a Q&A with director Mamoru Oshii from a festival screening. Buy Angel’s Egg.

Kill List (2011): Read Jesse Miksic’s review. Ben Wheatley‘s breakthrough sophomore feature, a hitman tale with echoes of The Wicker Man, Rosemary’s Baby, and Angel Heart, gets the 4K UHD treatment. Buy Kill List.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025): A Chilean feature about a young girl raised by a commune of drag queens which comes under suspicion when a disease arises which is spread by the male gaze. Opening in NYC this week with a few screenings across North America until early February (see following link for venues). The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo U.S. distributor site.

Rabbit Trap (2025): Married musicians accidentally make a field recording of a mysterious forbidden sound in Wales. This slow-paced surreal folk horror left most viewers equally bored and baffled. Buy Rabbit Trap.

Resurrection (2025): Bi Gan‘s latest involves a woman trapped in a dreamscape while undergoing a medical procedure who tells stories to an android corpse. In limited release right now from Janus, which means Criterion will release it in physical formats, probably in 2026. Resurrection at Janus Films.

Splendid Outing (1978): A Korean CEO (in the early days of feminism) is kidnapped and swept away to an island where a fisherman insists she is his wife. The scenario of this overlooked South Korean arthouse feature, now rediscovered by Radiance on Blu-ray, sounds a little like a gender-switched version of The Woman in the Dunes . Buy Splendid Outing.

WHAT’S IN THE PIPELINE:

No guest on Pod 366 next week, but Greg and Giles will return to catch-up on the final new releases of 2025. In written reviews, new writer Michael Diamades volunteers to venture In the Realm of the Senses (1976), Shane Wilson revisits Citizen Dog (2004), Giles Edwards makes some noise about the underground Haunters of the Silence (2025), and Gregory J. Smalley looks at The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025, see above). Onward and weirdward!